Politics

By Jeremy Diamond and Phil Mattingly, CNN Facing a dramatically narrowed path to passing legislation next year, the White House has started to zero in on potential openings that Republicans’ precariously slim, four-seat House majority may create. Officials acknowledged the sweeping legislative wins of President Joe Biden‘s first two years, several of which were clinched

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN An informal group of Black elected officials has lit up over phone calls and texts since Election Day. They’re worried about Black turnout that continues to underperform and talking ideas about how to turn it around before the next presidential election. Black voters didn’t go for Republicans in significant numbers, but

By Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal judge in Texas has put on hold for now the Biden administration’s most recent attempt to end the so-called “Remain in Mexico” program. US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk is pausing the termination of the program that was outlined in an October 2021 policy memo while litigation around that memo

By Clare Foran, Ali Zaslav and Ted Barrett, CNN The Senate voted on Thursday evening to pass a stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown at the end of this week with funding currently set to expire on Friday at midnight. The vote was 71 to 19. Now that it has passed the Senate, it

By Liam Reilly and Kristina Sgueglia, CNN Three men were sentenced Thursday for providing material support for a terrorist act and two other state-level charges related to the 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, according to a statement from the Michigan attorney general’s office. Pete Musico, Joseph Morrison and Paul Bellar, who prosecutors

By Paul LeBlanc and Haley Britzky, CNN The National Archives on Thursday released thousands of previously classified documents collected as part of the government review into the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The cache of over 13,000 documents is the second of two JFK assassination-related document dumps that President Joe Biden ordered last

By Sonnet Swire and Whitney Wild, CNN A US Capitol police officer injured on January 6, 2021, said Thursday that he is not leaving the force by choice, but “because they did that to me, the mob.” “It’s tough making that decision after 16 years. Almost half of my life I had dedicated to be

By Tami Luhby, CNN Congress has passed a bipartisan $858 billion defense bill that would give service members a hefty pay raise, bolster support for Ukraine and Taiwan, and rescind the US military’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate. The Senate voted Thursday to pass the massive National Defense Authorization Act, known as the NDAA, with bipartisan support.

By Kristen Holmes, CNN Donald Trump vowed Thursday that if he is elected president again, he would ban federal money from being used to label speech as misinformation or disinformation, fire federal officials who have engaged in what he characterized as “domestic censorship,” and punish universities engaging in “censorship activities” with cuts to federal funding.

By Eric Bradner, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is leaving Democratic leadership after Republicans won the majority. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is remaining at the helm of a chamber Democrats still control. But both said President Joe Biden should run for a second term in 2024 after what they described as an “excellent” first

By Clare Foran, Ted Barrett and Ali Zaslav, CNN The Senate voted on Thursday to pass sweeping legislation that would authorize $858 billion in national defense funding and rescind the US military’s Covid vaccine mandate. Now that it has passed the Senate, the measure is cleared for President Joe Biden’s signature. The House already approved

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Devan Cole, CNN A former Twitter manager convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia was sentenced on Wednesday to more than three years in prison. Ahmad Abouammo, a dual US-Lebanese citizen, was convicted earlier this year of six criminal counts, including acting as an agent for Saudi Arabia and trying to disguise

By Kit Maher, CNN New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu makes one thing clear: His vision for the future of the Republican Party does not include former President Donald Trump. In the latest episode of “Being…”, the GOP governor told CNN’s Dana Bash, “He’s done his time. He’s done his service. We’re moving on.” Taking it